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Now that Microsoft no longer has a "Windows or Office" angle to everything they do, what is their angle here (i.e. how does a cross-platform .NET target contrib

Now that Microsoft no longer has a "Windows or Office" angle to everything they do, what is their angle here (i.e. how does a cross-platform .NET target contribute to their bottom line)? I know they generally want to grow (1) Azure, and (2) developer mindshare. I see how a cross-platform .NET Core contributes to Microsoft's developer mindshare, and perhaps how Azure could follow up by cornering the market on really great back-end .NET Core hosting and operations. Is there anything beyond that?

cptskippy 8y ago
There are libraries for .NET Core that play very very nicely with Azure. And there are parts of Azure that play very nicely with their Enterprise software like Active Directory. It's all circular.
int_19h 8y ago
Think about how many cross-platform products Microsoft itself is working on. And how many engineers it has that are already proficient in .NET and C#...